On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Akos Maroy wrote:
mplayer? In particular I'd like to play the animatrix movies found at MOV: WARNING: Variable FOURCC detected!?
This is the problem. And the topic has been already discussed here to the death, i thought somebody was already making a FAQ of this? Anyway, here's my mini-FAQ: Q: Animatrix 1 doesn't work. What to do? A: Get patch from http://www.ee.oulu.fi/~tuukkat/mplayer/MPlayer-0.90rc2.varfourcc.patch Apply it, recompile. (Patch was made by A'rpi IIRC and posted on this list) Q: Animatrix 2 sound doesn't work. What to do? A: You have to first extract the audio into separate file: mplayer -dumpaudio animatrix2.mov then decode it faad stream.dump stream.wav and then play the video using the separately decoded audio mplayer -audiofile stream.wav animatrix2.mov The audio sync won't be perfect in either case.